Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] plugins version-subdirectory: Why?

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From: Lars Roland <lars.roland@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:57:39 +0100
Joerg Mayer schrieb:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:24:36PM +0100, Ulf Lamping wrote:

After updating to Ethereal 0.10.10 (which let's say have some incompatible binary changes) this plugin is still in the plugin dir and not updated by the installer (because it's a private plugin).

When you now start Ethereal, it will crash unexpectedly, not telling you anything about the cause.


That's why I proposed the following numbering change:
The directory should be called 0.10 for ethereal version 0.10.x
In case of a not backward compatible change to the plugin API, the
Ethereal version should be increased to 0.11.x. It's just that
nobody ever reacted to it.

Good idea,
I like that.

Regards,
Lars